Sunset Manor/Avera Health

Sunset Manor/Avera Health is an Independent Living community.

When cooking meals, cleaning the house, shoveling snow, mowing the lawn, and taking care of home repairs becomes burdensome, many seniors choose to move to an Independent Living Community (often referred to as a Retirement Community) to enjoy a carefree, retirement lifestyle.

This senior living option focuses on enjoying one's retirement. Most communities offer a myriad of amenities such as indoor pools, fitness and wellness centers, restaurant style dining, computer and business centers, well-stocked libraries, home theaters and walking paths - along with a wide range of individual and group leisure activities.

Convenience services such as meals, maintenance, grounds keeping, transportation, 24-hour security, and housekeeping and linen services are offered as part of the monthly fee or on an optional basis for an additional cost. Housing options may vary from freestanding, single-family homes to townhouses or apartments.

Sunset Manor/Avera Health is a Nursing and Rehabilitation Center.

A Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, also known as a Nursing Home, is a facility that provides 24-hour nursing care, rehabilitative services and assistance with daily tasks to individuals who are unable to safely reside at home or in any other living alternative. Nursing and Rehabilitation Centers provide medically supervised care to the elderly, disabled and chronically ill.

Some individuals require only a short stay for rehabilitation and strengthening after hospitalization, before returning home. Other residents require long-term medical, social and personal care along with supportive services that cannot be adequately provided in any other setting. A great number of Nursing and Rehabilitation Centers offer short-term respite care for caregivers needing temporary relief from their caregiving responsibilities.

Nursing and Rehabilitation Centers, also referred to as Skilled Nursing Facilities, Nursing Facilities, Health Care Centers, Convalescent Centers, Extended Care Centers or Long Term Care Facilities, can be freestanding or part of a continuum of care that typically includes Independent Living and Assisted Living.

Many facilities specialize in certain types of care. For example, a Nursing and Rehabilitation Center may offer complex medical and rehabilitation services called sub acute care. Others may have a separate dementia care "neighborhood" for individuals with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.

Medicare, Medicaid, private payment and long term care insurance are all methods of payment for nursing and rehabilitative care provided to seniors, although Medicare currently covers only short-term care.